Chapter XLII: INTERNAL EVIDENCES--THE EVIDENCE OF PROPHECY, (Continued.) (2)

It cannot be that this wonderful transformation of the world within our period has no significance. A new era has certainly dawned upon the world. Old things are passing away. All things are becoming new. Surely such changing conditions in material things prophesy corresponding changes in men as individuals and in their community life. These material improvements will doubtless be met by corresponding improvements in moral and spiritual wellbeing. There is undoubtedly a close connection between this influx of intellectual light and the splendid opening of the great new dispensation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. When the Lord renewed divine communication to man in the visions and revelations granted to Joseph Smith, there seemed to have accompanied this influx of spiritual light the intellectual light of which I have been speaking, and which has accomplished such transformations in the affairs of men and nations as are here noted. To the spirit which is in man the Spirit of the Lord has given inspiration to some purpose. It is not difficult to believe--nay to conceive the contrary seems impossible--that the Lord, according to the Book of Mormon prophecy, has commenced to bring about the restoration of his people Israel upon the earth, and to usher into the world that blessed reign of truth, peace and righteousness so long hoped for; so long the theme of poets, sages, statesmen and prophets; when with righteousness the Lord shall judge the pure and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth; when the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion, and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them; when the cow and the bear shall feed, and their young ones shall lie down together; when the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and the suckling child shall play on the hole of the cockatrice's den; when they shall not hurt nor destroy in all God's holy mountain; when the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea; when man shall know how sweet and pleasant it is for men to dwell together in unity and peace; and when, to correspond with these moral and spiritual conditions of the world, the material forces and resources of the earth shall be developed; distance annihilated; all the ends of the earth brought together in instant communication; poverty and crime banished; when labor shall have its own and the idler shall not sit in the lap of luxury, a burden to labor, but all shall contribute by intelligent industry to an enlightened world's necessities. The realization of the dream has long been deferred, but we are taught by scripture that if the vision tarry, wait for it, for it will come. Surely we may wait in confidence when in such a marked manner as here indicated the hand of God is to be seen fashioning and directing those events which shall culminate in the perfect realization of all the good that has been decreed for the earth and the inhabitants thereof.

V.

_The Sign of the Modern World's Awakening_.

An interesting feature in the awakening of the world, considered in the last subdivision of this chapter, is the fact that not only did this awakening begin about the time the Book of Mormon was published to the world, but it is one of the prophecies of the book that it should be so. That is to say, the spiritual and intellectual awakening of the modern world, and the coming forth of the Book of Mormon were to be contemporaneous events.

In the course of his ministry among the Nephites, the Messiah directed especial attention to, and laid great stress upon one of the prophecies of Isaiah, which follows:

Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall
they sing, for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring
again Zion. Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of
Jerusalem, for the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed
Jerusalem. The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all
the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation
of God.

Later in Messiah's ministry, when referring again to this prophecy, he remarked:

When they [the foregoing words of Isaiah] shall be fulfilled,
then is the fulfilling of the covenant which the Father hath made
unto his people, O house of Israel. And then shall the remnants
which shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the earth, be
gathered in from the east, and from the west, and from the south,
and from the north; and they shall be brought to the knowledge of
the Lord their God, who hath redeemed them. * * * And behold, this
people will I establish in this land, unto the fulfilling of the
covenant which I made with your father Jacob; and it shall be a New
Jerusalem. And the powers of heaven shall be in the midst of this
people; yea, even I will be in the midst of you. Behold, I am he of
whom Moses spake, saying, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise
up unto you of your brethren, like unto me, him shall ye hear in
all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to
pass that every soul who will not hear that prophet shall be cut
off from among the people. * * * And I will remember the covenant
which I have made with my people, and I have covenanted with them
that I would gather them together in mine own due time, that I
would give unto them again the land of their fathers, for their
inheritance, which is the land of Jerusalem, which is the promised
land unto them forever, saith the Father. And it shall come to
pass that the time cometh when the fulness of my gospel shall be
preached unto them. And they shall believe in me, that I am Jesus
Christ, the Son of God, and shall pray unto the Father in my name.
Then [referring to Isaiah] shall their watchmen lift up their
voice, and with the voice together shall they sing; for they shall
see eye to eye. [23]

And now as to the sign which he gave by which the branch of the house of Israel in the American continents might know that this work of restoring the house of Israel to the land of their inheritance, together with the spiritual and intellectual awakening that should attend upon that event--of this Jesus said:

And, verily, I say unto you, I give unto you a sign, that ye may
know the time when these things shall be about to take place, that
I shall gather in from their long dispersion my people, O house of
Israel, and shall establish again among them my Zion. And behold,
this is the thing which I will give unto you for a sign, for verily
I say unto you, that when these things which I declare unto you,
and which I shall declare unto you hereafter of myself, and by
the power of the Holy Ghost, which shall be given unto you of the
Father--[when these things] shall be made known unto the Gentiles,
that they may know concerning this people who are a remnant of
the house of Jacob, and concerning this my people who shall be
scattered by them.--Verily, verily, I say unto you, when these
things shall be made known unto them of the Father, and shall come
forth of the Father, from them unto you--* * when these works,
and the works which shall be wrought among you hereafter, shall
come forth from the Gentiles, unto your seed [through publishing
the Book of Mormon] * * * it shall be a sign unto them that they
may know that the work of the Father hath already commenced unto
the fulfilling of the covenant which he [God] hath made unto the
people who are of the house of Israel. * * * And then shall the
work of the Father commence at that day, even when this gospel
shall be preached among the remnant of this people--verily I say
unto you, at that day shall the work of the Father commence among
all the dispersed of my people; yea, even the tribes which have
been lost, which the Father hath led away out of Jerusalem. Yea,
the work shall commence among all the dispersed of my people *
* * to prepare the way whereby they may come unto me, that they
may call on the Father in my name; yea, and then shall the work
commence, with the Father, among all nations, in preparing the
way whereby his people may be gathered home to the land of their
inheritance. [24]

That is to say, the coming forth of the Book of Mormon was to be the signal for this modern world awakening; and the "sign" of the commencement of the work of the Lord among all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people, to bring to pass the restoration of his people and the accomplishment of his purposes in all the earth. The facts already set forth establish the fulfillment of this no less venturesome--i. e. venturesome for an imposter to make--than remarkable prophecy.

VI.

_Conditional Prophecies--The Evidence of Things Worthy of God to Reveal_.

In closing these chapters on the prophecies of the Book of Mormon, I direct attention to what I shall call conditional prophecies. Not for the purpose of referring to their fulfillment, either accomplished or prospective, as evidence of the truth of the book, but as exhibiting the fact that the Book of Mormon has a prophetic message for the present generation worthy of God to reveal, and one that it concerns the Gentile races now occupying the continents of America to know. These prophecies deal with the terms upon which the Gentile races may maintain for themselves and perpetuate to their posterity the inheritance they have secured in the goodly land of Joseph--the American continents. First let it be remembered that these continents, according to the Book of Mormon, are a promised land, especially to the seed of Joseph, son of the Patriarch Jacob, and also to the Gentiles whom God shall lead hither. To the leader of the Nephite colony the Lord said:

And in as much as ye shall keep my commandments ye shall prosper,
and shall be led to the land of promise. Yea, even a land which I
have prepared for you; yea, a land which is choice above all other
lands.

Subsequently, as is well known, the Nephite colony arrived in America, repeatedly referred to by them and their descendants as "the land of promise."

Before his demise the prophet Lehi, who lived to arrive with his colony upon the promised land, made the following prophecy concerning the occupancy of the land by his people:

Notwithstanding our afflictions, we have obtained a land of
promise, a land which is choice above all other lands; a land which
the Lord God hath covenanted with me should be a land for the
inheritance of my seed. Yea, the Lord hath covenanted this land
unto me, and to my children forever; and also all those who should
be led out of other countries by the hand of the Lord. Wherefore,
I, Lehi, prophesy according to the workings of the Spirit which
is in me, that there shall none come into this land save they
shall be brought by the hand of the Lord. Wherefore, this land is
consecrated unto him whom he shall bring. And if it so be that
they shall serve him according to the commandments which he hath
given, it shall be a land of liberty unto them; wherefore, they
shall never be brought down into captivity; if so, it shall be
because of iniquity; for if iniquity shall abound, cursed shall
be the land for their sakes; but unto the righteous it shall be
blessed forever. And behold, it is wisdom that this land should be
kept as yet from the knowledge of other nations; for behold, many
nations would overrun the land, that there would be no place for
an inheritance. Wherefore, I, Lehi, have obtained a promise, that
inasmuch as those whom the Lord God shall bring out of the land of
Jerusalem shall keep his commandments they shall prosper upon the
face of this land; and they shall be kept from all other nations,
that they may possess this land unto themselves. And if it so be
that they shall keep his commandments they shall be blessed upon
the face of this land, and there shall be none to molest them, nor
to take away the land of their inheritance; and they shall dwell
safely forever. But, behold, when the time cometh that they shall
dwindle in unbelief, after they have received so great blessings
from the hand of the Lord; having a knowledge of the creation of
the earth, and all men, knowing the great and marvelous works of
the Lord from the creation of the world; having power given them
to do all things by faith; having all the commandments from the
beginning, and having been brought by his infinite goodnesss into
this precious land of promise; behold, I say, if the day shall come
that they will reject the Holy One of Israel, the true Messiah,
their Redeemer and their God, behold the judgment of him that is
just shall rest upon them; yea, he will bring other nations unto
them, and he will give unto them [the incoming nations] power, and
he will take away from them [the remnants of the Nephites] the
lands of their possessions; and he will cause them to be scattered
and smitten. Yea, as one generation passeth to another, there shall
be bloodshed, and great visitations among them. [25]

This prophecy was fulfilled in the experiences of Lehi's descendants. Though in the course of their history they had some long periods, and some intermittent seasons of righteousness, they eventually, even after the personal ministrations of the Son of God among them, departed from righteousness, rejected Jesus Christ, and the decreed judgment fell upon them to the uttermost. The Gentile races finally came to the land, and took possession of it, while the descendants of the once favored race that occupied it were dispossessed and broken, and scattered.

The promises made to the Nephites had also been given to the Jaredites who preceded them in possession of the land. To the brother of Jared, the leader of the Jaredite colony, the Lord said: "I will go before thee into a land which is choice above all the lands of the earth." [26]

Moroni, while abridging the records of the Jaredites, which give an account of that people's migration to America, refers to the decrees of God concerning the land in the following passage:

And the Lord would not suffer that they should stop beyond the
sea in the wilderness, but he would that they should come forth
even unto the land of promise, which was choice above all other
lands, which the Lord God had preserved for a righteous people; and
he had sworn in his wrath unto the brother of Jared, that whoso
should possess this land of promise, from that time henceforth and
forever, should serve him, the true and only God, or they should
be swept off when the fulness of his wrath should come upon them.
And now we can behold the decrees of God concerning this land,
that it is a land of promise, and whatsoever nation shall possess
it, shall serve God, or they shall be swept off when the fulness
of his wrath shall come upon them. And the fulness of his wrath
cometh upon them when they are ripened in iniquity; for, behold,
this is a land which is choice above all other lands; wherefore
he that doth possess it shall serve God, or they shall be swept
off; for it is the everlasting decree of God. And it is not until
the fulness of iniquity among the children of the land, that they
are swept off. And this cometh unto you, O ye Gentiles, that ye
may know the decrees of God, that ye may repent, and not continue
in your iniquities until the fulness come, that ye may not bring
down the fulness of the wrath of God upon you, as the inhabitants
of the land hath hitherto done. Behold, this is a choice land, and
whatsoever nation shall possess it shall be free from bondage, and
from captivity, and from all other nations under heaven, if they
will but serve the God of the land, who is Jesus Christ, who hath
been manifested by the things which we have written.

Jesus also in the course of his ministry among the Nephites refers to these same decrees concerning the land; or, better say, makes them, since he is the "God of the land." His words follow:

The Father hath commanded me that I should give unto you [the
Nephites] this land, for your inheritance. And I say unto you that
if the Gentiles do not repent, after the blessing which they shall
receive after they have scattered my people, then shall ye who are
a remnant of the house of Jacob go forth among them; and ye shall
be in the midst of them, who shall be many; and ye shall be among
them, as a lion among the beasts of the forest, and as a young lion
among the flocks of sheep, who, if he goeth through, both treadeth
down and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. Thy hand shall be
lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be
cut off. And I will gather my people together, as a man gathereth
his sheaves into the floor, for I will make my people with whom the
Father hath covenanted, yea, I will make thy horn iron, and I will
make thy hoofs brass. And thou shalt beat in pieces many people;
and I will consecrate their gain unto the Lord, and their substance
unto the Lord of the whole earth. And behold, I am he who doeth it.
And it shall come to pass, saith the Father, that the sword of my
justice shall hang over them at that day; and except they repent,
it shall fall upon them, saith the Father, yea, even upon all the
nations of the Gentiles. [27]

Then follows an explanation of how, through the seed of Abraham, all the kindreds of the earth are blessed:

Unto the pouring out of the Holy Ghost through me [Jesus Christ]
upon the Gentiles, which blessing upon the Gentiles shall make
them mighty above all, unto the scattering of my people, O house
of Israel; and they shall be a scourge unto the people of this
land. Nevertheless, when they shall have received the fulness of my
gospel, then if they shall harden their hearts against me, I will
return their iniquities upon their own heads, saith the Father. [28]

Speaking further of the "great and marvelous work" which the Lord should bring forth in the last days, he again refers to the Gentiles upon the promised land, in the following words:

Therefore it shall come to pass that whosoever will not believe in
my words, who am Jesus Christ, whom the Father shall cause him to
bring forth unto the Gentiles, and shall give unto him power that
he shall bring them forth unto the Gentiles, (it shall be done
even as Moses said), they shall be cut off from among my people
who are of the covenant. And my people who are a remnant of Jacob
shall be among the Gentiles, yea, in the midst of them as a lion
among the beasts of the forest, as the young lion among the flock
of sheep, who, if he go through both treadeth down and teareth to
pieces, and none can deliver. Their hand shall be lifted up upon
their adversaries, and all their enemies shall be cut off. Yea, wo
be unto the Gentiles, except they repent, for it shall come to pass
in that day, saith the Father, that I will cut off thy horses out
of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots, and I will
cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strongholds;
and I will cut off witchcrafts out of thy hand, and thou shalt
have no more soothsayers; thy graven images I will also cut off,
and thy standing images out of the midst of thee, and thou shalt
no more worship the works of thy hands; and I will pluck up thy
groves out of the midst of thee; so will I destroy thy cities. And
it shall come to pass that all lying, and deceiving, and envying,
and strifes, and priestcrafts, and whoredoms, shall be done away.
For it shall come to pass, saith the Father, that at that day
whosoever will not repent and come unto my beloved Son, them will
I cut off from among my people. O house of Israel; and I will
execute vengeance and fury upon them, even as upon the heathen,
such as they have not heard. But if they [the Gentiles] will
repent, and hearken unto my words, and harden not their hearts, I
will establish my church among them and they shall come in unto the
covenant, and be numbered among this remnant of Jacob, unto whom I
have given this land for their inheritance. And they shall assist
my people, the remnant of Jacob, and also, as many of the house of
Israel as shall come, that they may build a city, which shall be
called the New Jerusalem; and then shall they assist my people that
they may be gathered in, who are scattered upon all the face of the
land, in unto the New Jerusalem. And then shall the power of heaven
come down among them; and I also will be in the midst. [29]

Here then is the conditional prophecy that it concerns the proud Gentile races now inhabiting the American continents to know. These continents are a promised land; they are given primarily to the descendants of the Patriarch Joseph as an inheritance, but the Gentile races are also given an inheritance in them with the descendants of Joseph. The whole land, however, is dedicated to righteousness and liberty, and the people who possess it, whether of the house of Israel or Gentiles, must be a righteous people, and worship the "God of the land, who is Jesus Christ." In that event God stands pledged to preserve the land and the people thereof from all other nations, and to bless them with very great and peculiar blessings guaranteeing to them freedom and peaceful possession of the land forever. If the Gentile races shall observe these conditions they and their children are to share in the blessings of the land in connection with the descendants of the Patriarch Joseph. If they depart from justice, reject righteousness and Jesus Christ, then the judgments decreed will overtake them until they are wasted away. This is the decree of God respecting the Western hemisphere, and is one of the important messages that the Book of Mormon has to deliver to the present generation.

Nor is it the Book of Mormon alone that bears this message. So far as the people of the United States are concerned, I might say, if not one of their own prophets, at least their greatest statesman, gave substantially the same warning to the people of that nation, and I believe his utterances are equally applicable to the people occupying the other parts of the American continents. Read the following quotation from the speech delivered a few months before its author's death, and tell me if the American statesman, Daniel Webster, did not catch the same glow of inspiration when predicting the terms upon which the people now occupying our country may hold their heritage, as that which warmed the hearts of the Book of Mormon writers and speakers, whose words are quoted in the preceding passages. Mr. Webster's speech was delivered before the "New York Historical Society," on February 22nd--Washington's birthday--1852; as the great American died in October following, the address was one of his last speeches.

Unborn ages and visions of glory crowd upon my soul, the
realization of all which, however, is in the hands and good
pleasure of Almighty God; but, under his divine blessing, it will
be dependent on the character and the virtues of ourselves, and of
our posterity. If classical history has been found to be, is now,
and shall continue to be, the concomitant of free institutions, and
of popular eloquence, what a field is opening to us for another
Herodotus, another Thucydides, and another Livy!

And let me say, gentlemen, that if we and our posterity shall be
true to the Christian religion--if we and they shall live always
in the fear of God, and shall respect his commandments, if we and
they shall maintain just, moral sentiments, and such conscientious
convictions of duty as shall control the heart and life--we may
have the highest hopes of the future fortunes of our country;
and if we maintain those institutions of government and that
political union, exceeding all praise as much as it exceeds all
former examples of political associations, we may be sure of one
thing--that, while our country furnishing materials for a thousand
masters of the historic art, it will afford no topic for a Gibbon.
It will have no Decline and Fall. It will go on prospering and to
prosper.

But, if we and our posterity reject religious instruction and
authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the
injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political
constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden
a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in
profound obscurity. Should that catastrophe happen, let it have no
history! Let the horrible narrative never be written! Let its fate
be like that of the lost books of Livy, which no human eye shall
ever read; or the missing Pleiad, of which no man can ever know
more, than that it is lost, and lost forever!

I think my statement will be within reasonable limits when I say that this sublime doctrine and warning of Mr. Webster's has the same source of inspiration as the utterances of the Book of Mormon writers. I believe that all who read and compare these passages will conclude there is something more than mere coincidence in their agreement.

As before stated, it is not my purpose in calling attention to these conditional prophecies to point to their fulfillment, either accomplished or prospective, in evidence of the truth of the Book of Mormon. Their worth as evidence to the truth of the book rests solely upon the importance of the matter with which they deal. The demand of the world is, and it is a reasonable one, that a book purporting to be a revelation from God should deal with subjects that it is important for men to know, and I regard the terms that constitute the conditions upon which the American continents may be securely held by the people who possess them, as a matter of the highest importance for the people to know, and hence worthy to be found in a book purporting to be a revelation from God. Such knowledge is no less important than to know the source whence the continents of America are peopled; the providences of God in dealing with them; and the fact that the Son of God visited the western hemisphere, and taught to the inhabitants thereof the gospel, and established here his church for the perpetuation of the truth and for the salvation of men. All this is revealed in the Book of Mormon, and makes up a mass of knowledge that it concerns mankind to know, and hence is worthy of God to reveal. Had the Book of Mormon dealt with light or trivial things--things unworthy of God to reveal, mankind would require no further evidence that its claims to a divine origin were baseless; and conversely: if the book reveals a mass of knowledge--worthy of God to reveal and important for man to know--then it is evidence of considerable weight that the book is of God.

Footnotes

1. II. Nephi xxx: 3-11.

2. II. Nephi xxx: 12-15.

3. "Descendants of the Jews." This expression, I believe, is used in this instance as equivalent to "Descendants of the house of Israel." That is, the American Indians will know they are Israelites. This sense of the phrase "the Jews" is used in other parts of the Book of Mormon: for instance, "That the father may bring about * * * his great and eternal purposes, in restoring the Jews, or all the House of Israel, to the land of their inheritance." We have already pointed out in previous foot notes that according to the Book of Mormon the American Indians are a mixture of the tribes of Manasseh, Ephraim and Judah (see pp. 95, 325-6); and therefore we think the phrase "descendants of the Jews," does not mean to confine native American race descent to the Jews alone, but merely to say that they are descendants of the House of Israel, for which "Jews" here stands as equivalent.

4. See Doc. & Cov. Section xxix and Section xxxii.

5. History of the Church, Vol. I, p. 185, note. Aut. P. P. Pratt, pp. 56-61.

6. It may be suspected that Elder Pratt colored his account of this speech to fit the prophecy of the Book of Mormon, but if that were so some reference to its fulfillment of the prediction--"then shall they rejoice"--would naturally be looked for; but it is a singular thing that nowhere in the early literature of the Church is reference made to this prophetic page. The full account of this first Indian mission will be found in the "History of the Church," Vol. I, pp. 111-120, and pages 182-185.

7. "History of the Church," Vol. I, pp. 184-5.

8. "History of the Church," Vol. V., Chapters xxiv and xxv. The prophet had been visiting relatives in Dixon, and while there fell into the hands of his enemies, who sought to take him to Missouri. He escaped them, however, by a writ of habeas corpus, on which he was tried and acquitted at Nauvoo.

9. "Millennial Star," Vol. XXI, pp. 634-5.

10. Amos ix: 14.

11. Obadiah i: 17.

12. Deut. vii: 6.

13. Zechariah ii: 12.

14. Isaiah xiv: 1.

15. Ezekiel xxxvii: 21-27.

16. Isaiah xix: 21.

17. "In the opinion of some, it may become a training-ground for those who are eventually to go to Zion. * * * Whatever solution the East African scheme may find, it can be but a temporary one. The eye of the people's soul cannot be turned from the object upon which it has rested for centuries and centuries. * * * The soul of Israel has always felt, and when occasion offered has always said, that such a concentration at such a rallying-point, can be induced only in the ancient home of the children of Israel, in Palestine."--Richard J. H. Gottheil.

18. See Doc. & Cov., Sec. 110.

19. "Biography of Lorenzo Snow," p. 496.

20. Since the foregoing was written the following press dispatch from Jerusalem, under date of July 28th, 1906, appeared in the daily papers of the United States: Jerusalem, July 28--The Zionist movement--the return of the Jews to Palestine--is being carried actively on, and during the last few months there has been a remarkable influx of Israelites into the Holy Land.

A fertile region, east of the Jordan, toward Kerak, has been inspected by a party of Jewish financiers, with the idea of colonizing it. * * * * * * The intending colonists are negotiating with the government for the purchase of land and for guarantees of protection against the Bedouins. Five thousand Jewish emigrants from Russia and the Balkan States recently landed at Jaffa. They will be distributed among the various Jewish colonies, which are to be found in all the fertile districts of Palestine. It looks as if the Chosen People are literally coming to their own again.

21. "A mighty dawn of ideas is peculiar to our own age (nineteenth century)."--Victor Hugo.

22. "No previous century ever saw anything approaching to the increase in social complexity which has been wrought in America and Europe since 1789. In science and in the industrial arts the change has been greater than in the ten preceding centuries taken together. Contrast the seventeen centuries which it took to remodel the astronomy of Hipparchus with the forty years which it has taken to remodel the chemistry of Berzelius and the biology of Cuvier. * * * How small the difference between the clumsy wagons of the Tudor period and the mailcoach in which our grandfathers rode, compared to the difference between the mail-coach and the railway train! How rapid the changes in philosophic thinking since the time of the Encyclopedistes, in comparison with the slow though important changes which occurred between the epoch of Aristotle and the epoch of Descartes! In morality, both individual and national, and in general humanity of disposition and refinement of manners, the increased rapidity of change has been no less marked."--Cosmic Philosophy (Fiske), Vol. IV., p. 54, 55.

23. III. Nephi 20.

24. III. Nephi, chapter 21.

25. II. Nephi i: 5-12.

26. Ether i: 42.

27. III. Nephi 20: 14-20.

28. III. Nephi 20: 27, 28.

29. III. Nephi xxi: 11-25.